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Passage
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I can鈥檛 believe I read this whole book. I swear, every time I picked it up, someone had added another 25 pages to it.
I thought about bailing at around page 100, and then again at page 200 and even at page 300! But I loved Doomsday by this same author, and couldn鈥檛 bring myself to give up on this one. It鈥檚 about near death experiences and the Titanic; how can that combination fail to be interesting?
In fact, the story was interesting, but the book was too long by about 200 pages鈥�-mostly due to repeated (and repeated and repeated) minor plot elements that added nothing to the book. The dialogue and interactions among the main characters were absolutely awful and completely unbelievable. And most of the minor characters (the flirtatious nurse, sick kids鈥� mom-in-denial, celebrity-psychologist) were caricatures and then some. Actually, I remember that the author used a similar style in Doomsday, with over-the-top character parodies, but somehow it was funnier in that book (maybe because they were British?).
There is some wonderful writing at the end of the book and very poignant perspectives on life and death. But slogging through 597 pages to get there was not worth it.
I thought about bailing at around page 100, and then again at page 200 and even at page 300! But I loved Doomsday by this same author, and couldn鈥檛 bring myself to give up on this one. It鈥檚 about near death experiences and the Titanic; how can that combination fail to be interesting?
In fact, the story was interesting, but the book was too long by about 200 pages鈥�-mostly due to repeated (and repeated and repeated) minor plot elements that added nothing to the book. The dialogue and interactions among the main characters were absolutely awful and completely unbelievable. And most of the minor characters (the flirtatious nurse, sick kids鈥� mom-in-denial, celebrity-psychologist) were caricatures and then some. Actually, I remember that the author used a similar style in Doomsday, with over-the-top character parodies, but somehow it was funnier in that book (maybe because they were British?).
There is some wonderful writing at the end of the book and very poignant perspectives on life and death. But slogging through 597 pages to get there was not worth it.
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December 5, 2008
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January 29, 2009
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Nov 29, 2015 12:44PM
Totally agree. Shallow characters. And mapping the hospital was ridiculous. Waaaay too long.
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I haven't finished it yet, but so far, I agree that it could have been much shorter, so much repetitive stuff, constant running and hiding from people she doesn't want to talk to, she's always rushing off, and so much minutiae, that got old. But I will finish it, as the concept is interesting.
